{"id":317614,"date":"2026-02-26T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317614\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:15:08","slug":"doc-gets-march-madness-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317614\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Gets March Madness Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Gonzaga Bulldogs<\/a> are ready for their close-up.<\/p>\n

\n\tFocusing on college basketball<\/a>\u2018s perennial Cinderella team, sports<\/a> documentary<\/a> feature Gonzaga: The Slipper Still Fits is set to debut as a Tubi<\/a> Original on March 6, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Director David Check\u2019s feature marks the second project hailing from the AVOD platform\u2019s partnership with Teton Ridge Entertainment, following Tubi\u2019s launch earlier this month of women\u2019s college basketball documentary The Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tGonzaga: The Slipper Still Fits centers on how head coach Mark Few turned the small college program into a national powerhouse that became a regular contender in the NCAA<\/a> Division I men\u2019s basketball tournament known as March Madness<\/a>. The film includes interviews with such prominent figures as Few and Steve Kerr<\/a>, along with Gonzaga alums John Stockton, Adam Morrison, Chet Holmgren, Andrew Nembhard, Jalen Suggs and Domantas Sabonis.<\/p>\n

\n\tThomas Tull produces the movie that hails from Teton Ridge Entertainment and Words + Pictures. Jillian Share, Josh Miller, Connor Schell, Jonathan Hock, Libby Geist, Alexa Conway and Angela T. O\u2019Neal serve as executive producers. Negotiating the deal were Miller and Jessica McCourt for Teton Ridge Entertainment and Ian Nelson for Tubi. The trailer can be seen below.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to expand our partnership with Teton Ridge Entertainment with Gonzaga: The Slipper Still Fits,\u201d says Tubi senior vp of content acquisitions and partnerships Sam Harowitz. \u201cThe Gonzaga story resonates beyond the court and has the power to shape culture, and we\u2019re proud to bring Coach Few\u2019s remarkable legacy to our audience with this compelling documentary.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film\u2019s title references announcer Gus Johnson exclaiming, \u201cThe slipper still fits,\u201d after a key win during Gonzaga\u2019s 1999 March Madness run. The Bulldogs were the runner-up in the national championship games of 2017 and 2021. <\/p>\n

\n\tAdds Teton Ridge Entertainment president Share, \u201cAt Teton Ridge Entertainment, we look for stories that reveal something bigger about who we are. We saw that in Gonzaga \u2014 a program built on grit, humility and an unshakable belief that where you come from doesn\u2019t define where you end up. Working with Tubi, we\u2019ve created a documentary that captures that spirit.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gonzaga Bulldogs are ready for their close-up. Focusing on college basketball\u2018s perennial Cinderella team, sports documentary feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[46615,1050,93,61,60,96837,270,14578,112,62785,37000],"class_list":{"0":"post-317614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-documentary","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-march-madness","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-steve-kerr","18":"tag-tubi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}